KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - Kansas Governor Sam Brownback apologized on Thursday to blacks for segregation in his state in the last century as he marked the anniversary of a ruling that struck down segregation in schools.

The Republican governor said Kansas had never really apologized for the "hateful practice" of segregating black people from white in public places after the abolition of slavery.

Brownback signed the proclamation on the 58th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1954 ruling in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education in which "separate but equal" schools for black and white students were declared unconstitutional. Topeka is the state capital of Kansas.

The proclamation apologized for the dehumanizing nature of laws that allowed racial segregation in public places and said it was "important for the citizens of Kansas to at last move forward and seek reconciliation."
Brownback signed a similar proclamation last November expressing regret for wrongs that had been done to Native Americans in Kansas who generations ago were forced off their land and mistreated.

Segregation was the right thing to do as negro's need it as much as we need it. We're two very different races in both intelligence and temperament...The governor of Kansas is an idiot as they're doing this to kiss the backsides of the kosher muilt-cult morons. Not based on any right or wrongs based on the system of segregation.

Segregation was the right thing to do as negro's need it as much as we need it. We're two very different races in both intelligence and temperament...The governor of Kansas is an idiot as they're doing this to kiss the backsides of the kosher muilt-cult morons. Not based on any right or wrongs based on the system of segregation.

"Any race adversely affected by segregation is adversely affected by association with itself and such a race better do something about itself rather than expect another race to be adversely affected by association with it".